A call to arms for freelancers

Jan62017

A call to arms for freelancers

Submitted by Cybrarian on Fri, 01/06/2017 - 07:56

Thomas Vinciguerra takes aim at media outlets that pay freelancers by the page view or, worse, don't pay them at all, unless you count "exposure" as currency: "It’s hardly a secret that magazines and newspapers are now leaning mercilessly on their dwindling staffs, unable to pay outsiders as much as they once did or take them on at all … But there is something fundamentally obscene about expecting anyone to work gratis. And that applies even to us ink-stained wretches."